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<DIV>I am working on an article designed to help newcomers to XeTeX, in particular with fontspec and other font issues. It is very close to being ready to post (probably this weekend). I will mail the list when it's done. It will include information about freely available fonts that contain OpenType features that people can try for themselves (mainly Junicode, Linux Libertine, and my own Cardo font; if anybody knows of others, please tell me about them).</DIV>
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<DIV>As for whether the fontspec docs should be rewritten: I am of two minds. It is certainly nice to be able to try the fonts that are shown, whether one actually tries to compile the given examples or just make up one's own as one experiments. So it would be desirable to use fonts that anyone could get. But it would be a fair amount of work, and time might be better spent on other things, especially once there is more documentation available (whether mine or contributed by someone else). There are one or two features available in AAT fonts (and accessible via fontspec) that have no OT equivalent. We would have to keep the Mac-specific examples for those anyway. So probably better to leave things as they are.</DIV>
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<DIV>I would like to suggest one enhancement to fontspec, however. Right now it uses Mac-style names for a number of features. If one comes to fontspec with some knowledge of OT, as I did, it is a bit confusing to sort out the names. A couple of the features can be called by either Mac or OT names (e.g., Rare [AAT] or Discretionary [OT] ligatures). Would it be a great deal of work to enable all features to be called by either name? Do others see that as desirable? (If one comes to fontspec with no knowledge of OT, it doesn't really matter).</DIV>
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<DIV>David<BR>May 7, 2009 06:50:04 PM, <A class=parsedEmail href="mailto:xetex@tug.org" target=_blank>xetex@tug.org</A> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(102,153,204) 3px solid"><BR>Am 07.05.2009 um 19:43 schrieb Gareth Hughes:<BR><BR>> can we move the examples over to freely<BR>> distributed fonts, with links for download, so that beginners can<BR>> replicate examples exactly?<BR><BR><BR>Some fonts are chosen because of their features which freely <BR>available fonts maybe don't have ...<BR><BR>--<BR>Greetings<BR><BR>Pete<BR><BR>Globalisation – communism from above.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>XeTeX mailing list<BR><A class="parsedEmail parsedEmail" href="mailto:postmaster@tug.org" target=_blank>postmaster@tug.org</A><BR><A class=parsedLink href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex" target=_blank>http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></html>